Ninety-seven years of editorialfreedom L PVOLUME XCVII - NO. 133 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN - TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1987 COPYRIGHT 1987, THE MICHIGAN DAILY Anxious interns wait for summer offers By REBECCA COX As the end of the school year draws near, the drawer full of rejection letters grows heavier - a familiar thing for juniors who applied for summer internships in January. But finding an internship can be just as difficult and more compe- titive than getting a "real" job. Engineering junior Charlie Loesel applied for internships through the Business Internship Program. Loesel was calm until the last three weeks in March, when nothing came through. "I got the runaround from a couple of different companies. They really didn't know what they nee- ded, and when I started getting caught up in all of these hassles I got discouraged. Finally all of my leads dwindled down into nothing, so I was left with nowhere to go," he said.' LOESEL decided to register for summer classes, but then Ford Motor Co. called him. He is now waiting for an offer. But even if he doesn't get an offer, he's not too worried. "My employer from last year decided to rehire me. He offered me a salary high enough to compete with my internship, so that gives me something to fall back on," Loesel said. The, Business Internship Pro- gram helps students find internships in big businesses, and the Public Service Internship Program pro- vides internships in government, mostly in Washington and Lansing. LSA junior Eric Winiecke found his internship last year with the help of the Office of Career Plan- ning and Placement by joining the Public Service Internship Program. Winiecke spent a summer as a poli- cy analyst at an office in Wash- ington, D.C. Pierce aborts equity By PETER MOONEY Former Ann Arbor Mayor Ed Pierce signed a resolution calling for the hiring of a consultant for the city's pay equity study just a few hours before his term expired. Pierce's move Sunday prevented newly sworn-in Mayor Gerald Jernigan from vetoing the resolution at last night's city council meeting. The pay equity study will determine whether sexual discrimination exists in the city's pay structure. Council Democrats have said the study is needed because of city payroll statistics showing women earn $1 for every $1.25 earned by men. THE CITY CHARTER allows the mayor up to 72 hours, not including Sundays and holidays, to veto actions passed by the city council. The resolution was passed Thursday evening. Jernigan had said he believed the charter gave him authority to veto the resolution. But an interpretation of the city charter by Ann Arbor City Attorney Bruce Laidlaw issued Friday said that "if prior to the expiration of his term, the Mayor is presented with the record of the April 9 proceedings, he would have the authority to approve those proceedings. In my opinion, such an approval would prevent a subsequent veto veto of any of those proceedings." Since Pierce's term ended Sunday at midnight, proponents of the resolution had to move quickly to get it signed by Pierce. According to Gregory Scott, a member of the city's Human Rights Commission, "We got it out Saturday. We used Dash mail. We actually had the airlines do it." THE COMMISSION has a sub- ommittee which is specifically responsible for pay equity. In the beginning of March, it began meeting with City Administrator Godfrey Collins and Personnel Director Bill Scott. Gregory Scott said all were in agreement that a consultant was needed. He added that Ronnie Steinberg, a Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at Temple University, will be hired as the committee's consultant. "We felt Ronnie Steinberg was tech- nically and politically the best qualified person," Scott added. Jernigan has said that he opposed the hiring of the consultant because he believed the commission should handle the study on its own. Steinberg will advise to committee on the technical aspects of its responsiblities. These include commissioning and taking bids on See RESOLUTION, Page 2 Daily Photo by DANA MENDELSSOHN Local musician Ron Necros and his girlfriend Karen, an art school junior, show off their tat- toos. Karen's is a copy of a Georgia O'Keefe painting. The couple also have matching tattoos of a lizard. Tattoos make mak> on student body By EDWARD KLEINE Once the province of bikers, dockworkers, and inhabitants of Old Sailors' Homes, tattoos have moved into the social mainstream, adorning the bodies of nurses, ,business people, and even University students. Award-winning tattoo artist Suzanne Fauser, who has been tattooing in Ann Arbor for seven years, said the number of college students getting tattoos is on the rise. "You're seeing a younger clientele now," she said. "I rarely saw anyone from the University until about a year ago." MSA aids end-use'cause By MARTHA SEVETSON "We're working for a safer and more peaceful world, and for a University that's committed to that," said LSA junior Jackie Victor, co-chair of the Michigan Student Assembly's Peace and Justice Committee. Before she was elected co-chair last week, Victor worked closely with the committee, MSA's military research advisors, the Women's Alliance for Nuclear Disarmament, and several other organizations to promote a "weapons research-free University." The culmination of these efforts will be a vigil in Regents' Plaza on Thursday to save the "end-use" clause of the classified research guidelines. The clause forbids classified research potentially harmful to humans. VICTOR said the vigil will show community support for retaining the clause. "End-use may or may not be effective, but the University is making the statement that they don't want research to be done the intent of which is to kill or maim human See MSA, Page 3 See JUNIORS, Page 5 See STUDENTS, Page 2 Old shanty targeted by scavenger hunters By CALEB SOUTHWORTH Two students participating in the Engineering Society Committee's Road Rally II were caught vanda - lizing the old shanty on the Diag and handed over to Ann Arbor police this weekend. Participants in the hunt were given three hours to amass points by collecting items such as PIRGIM posters, Black Action Movement posters, United Coa - lition Against Racism posters, and pieces from the shanty. The rally was a scavenger hunt sponsored in part by the Society of Automotive Engineers and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). University se- curity detained the students who allegedly vandalized the shanty Sat - urday evening. At one of the "checkpoints" in the scavenger hunt, participants were asked to sign a petition by the "Coalition for Campus Beauty" which labeled the shanty an "eye - sore" and called for its removal. One source said, "We had no idea that there would be a shanty peti - tion before we got there." ASME member and event orga - nizer David Cantrell said the peti - tion was a "joke." Barbara Ransby, a member of the Free South Africa Coordinating Committee (FSACC) and UCAR steering committee member, said, Holiday feast Daily Photo by SCOTT ITUCY LSA sophomore Steve Yuan eats matzos during Passover in the South Quad cafeteria. "My grandmother loved these things, which got me to try them," he said. "This is the climate of racism we're talking about." "This incident differs from others in that it cannot be attributed to random violence. It is a calculated decision by a group of students to commit a racist act," Ransby said. Both FSACC and UCAR plan to prosecute the perpetrators and press for a full apology from the sponsoring organizations. Cantrell objected. "I want to make clear that there were no racial overtones to what was done. "Though there was a conser - vative taint, there's nothing wrong with that. Everyone had fun." INSIDE If you oppose Reagan's policy in South -Africa and Central America, protest in Washington, D. C. on April 25. OPINION, PAGE 4 'Female Parts,' a trilogy of one- woman acts, plays at the True - blood Theater through Sunday. ARTS, PAGE 7 'Aargh,' says Garg after it is kicked off Diag Wallace to speak on past mistakes By EDWARD .KLEINE and DAVID WEBSTER Campus safety officers ordered Gargoyle staff members to stop selling the magazine on the Diag yesterday, ending a 76-year tradition and possibly preventing the Gar- drive at the same time. The Gargoyle has never had a permit to sell on the Diag, said Editor Ivan Sanchez, who thinks the Gargoyle is such a campus tradition that it shouldn't have to get a permit. p+ V I,, r j ..- By CALEB SOUTHWORTH Mike Wallace's speech at May commencement will highlight con- troversy over his 1982 racial remarks and the objectivity of the press. The CBS "60 Minutes" reporter, issued by a San Diego bank which recorded the "60 Minutes" inte- rviews. While the CBS cameras were off, Wallace made a "joke" about the contracts. "You bet your ass they're hard to read," he said, "if you're reading